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Telecoms company Swisscom offered the Swiss franc bond market 10 year paper on Monday. -
Spain’s largest department store group, El Corte Inglés, picked a busy week to roadshow its first rated issue. But its bonds will be listed in Dublin, despite efforts from the Spanish financial regulator to force a domestic bond listing in Madrid.
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ICBC Standard Bank on Monday said that it had hired two commodities derivatives veterans to take senior roles in its base metals business.
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Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) has selected banks for its first trip to the bond market for five years, angling to refinance a bond maturing next week.
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Shandong Gold Mining has raised HK$4.8bn ($616.8m) after sealing its IPO at the bottom of price guidance, according to a senior banker on the deal.
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UK telecoms provider BT Group avoided competing with six new issues on Thursday and found itself with no competing supply for its latest corporate bond deal on Friday. While BT’s ambitions for the size of its deal this time were more modest than previous trades, the demand was still strong, allowing it to print tight to secondary levels.
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State-owned German rail operator Deutsche Bahn took the opportunity to make the most of the European Central Bank’s corporate bond buying programme when it sold a €500m 12.5 year deal on Thursday.
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Signs emerged in the SSA market this week that not all SRI bonds are equally worthwhile as far as investors are concerned, particularly when market conditions are not ideal. A series of bonds with a green label went through with little difficulty but a pair of social bonds were undersubscribed. Craig McGlashan reports.
